John “Jack” Rozel, MD, MSL, DFAPA
 

Medical Director, resolve Crisis Services, UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital

Co-director, UPMC Systemwide Threat Assessment & Response Team

Director, Southwestern Pennsylvania Regional Threat Assessment Hub

Professor of Psychiatry & Adjunct Professor of Law,

Core Faculty, Center for Bioethics & Health Law

University of Pittsburgh

Dr. Rozel has been working in emergency mental health since 1990 and has been the medical director of resolve Crisis Services of UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital since 2010.  He is a Past President of the American Association for Emergency Psychiatry, the leading national organization dedicated to the improvement of compassionate, evidence-based care for people with psychiatric emergencies.  He divides his time between emergency psychiatry and violence work.    

Dr. Rozel trains and consults with teams across UPMC and the country on projects related to violence and threat management, staff injury prevention, firearm injury prevention, and crisis and emergency psychiatry.  Dr. Rozel is board certified in general, child, and forensic psychiatry.  He earned a bachelor’s in Biomedical Ethics and an MD at Brown University.  He received a Master of Studies in Law from the University of Pittsburgh.  He completed his general psychiatry residency and child and forensic psychiatry fellowships at Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic of UPMC.  

Dr. Rozel has served as an incident commander for mass shootings and been involved in the behavioral health response to several mass casualty events.  He has contributed to major policy and practice efforts including the National Council for Behavioral Health’s report on Mass Violence, the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline’s violence management guidelines, the Pennsylvania Governor’s Special Council on Gun Violence report, and the AMA et al’s Amici brief for the Supreme Court NYSRPA v Bruen case.  Dr. Rozel is a member of the Mental Health and Justice Advisory Committee for the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency.  In conjunction with the PCCD, he is receiving funding from the US Department of Homeland Security’s Center for Prevention Programs & Partnerships to develop regional threat management partnerships in Western Pennsylvania.  He serves on the Pennsylvania Special Council on Gun Violence and was recently appointed to the Citizens Law Enforcement Advisory and Review Commission.

Dr. Rozel is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and an Honorary Member of the American College of Emergency Physicians.  He has been recognized with the Exemplary Psychiatrist Award from the National Alliance on Mental Illness, the Behavioral Healthcare Professional of the Year from CIT International, and the Ralph C. Wilde Leadership Award from the Allegheny County Medical Society.

Dr. Rozel regularly provides clinical and didactic training to medical students, residents, and fellows at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine; mentors graduate students through the Center for Bioethics and Health Law; and co-teaches Mental Health Law at the School of Law.  Dr. Rozel has been a CIT trainer for more than 10 years and provides training on violence and behavioral emergencies to a variety of regional and federal law enforcement professionals.